Transfer Credits with Ease

You deserve credit for what you already know so you can earn your degree as efficiently and affordably as possible. The comprehensive transfer policies at University of Maryland University College and multiple transfer credit options are designed to allow you to do just that.

You can receive credit for professional and volunteer experience, previous college courses, certifications, professional courses, and vocational and technical courses. You can also receive credit by exam and earn credit for learning on the job while you're a student.

You can speak with an advisor for a preliminary evaluation of your transfer credits before you even apply to UMUC. Then, after you apply, we'll do your official transfer credit evaluation.

Portfolio

Through Portfolio, you can receive as many as 30 credits by identifying and documenting the college-level learning you have gained through work (paid and volunteer), community or political activities, and other experiences outside of the classroom.

You enroll in a 3-credit course (EXCL 301) and create a portfolio describing and documenting your learning experiences. Your portfolio is then evaluated by faculty members, who determine the amount of credit you should be awarded.

If you later want to target more courses, you can enroll in a non-credit course (EXCL 001) and do so. Depending on the number of credits you receive through Portfolio, you can save a great deal on your program because credits awarded through Portfolio assessment are evaluated for a fee that is much lower than the cost of tuition.

Course Challenge

Your professional experience and other learning you’ve done outside of the classroom may be all you need to receive credit for a UMUC class without even taking it. Through Course Challenge, you can earn credit for a wide range of undergraduate courses at UMUC simply by passing the equivalent of a final exam for the course.

If you've taken college or graduate classes previously, you may be able to transfer them to your program at UMUC. You can apply as many as 70 credits from two-year schools and community colleges and as many as 90 credits from four-year colleges and universities to your bachelor's degree at UMUC as long as you earned at least a C in the courses, the courses apply to your UMUC curriculum, and the courses do not duplicate other courses for which credit has been awarded.

Our Community College Alliance Program gives you the peace of mind that all of your credits from alliance programs and schools will transfer directly to UMUC. More than 90 community and technical colleges across the United States, including all 16 Maryland community colleges, participate in the alliance program.

You may also be able to transfer as many as 6 credits taken at another graduate school toward your master's degree, though not all UMUC graduate programs accept transfer credits.

If you have passed certain industry-standard certification exams, you can receive credit for certifications at UMUC. We accept a wide range of certifications in information technology and computer science-related fields. Simply provide documentation of the certification to us within five years of taking the exam.

You can receive credit for professional courses if they apply to your curriculum and have been evaluated by either the American Council on Education (if the courses are listed in The National Guide to Educational Credit for Training Programs) or the State University of New York National Program on Non-Collegiate-Sponsored Instruction (if listed in its College Credit Recommendations).

You may be able to receive as many as 21 elective credits for vocational and technical credit you've earned from approved institutions and organizations evaluated by the American Council on Education. We accept as many as 6 credits toward a certificate, 12 credits toward an associate's degree, and 21 credits toward a bachelor's degree.

You can receive as many as 30 credits toward your associate's degree and 60 credits toward your bachelor's degree through credit by exam. Examples of examinations include the Excelsior College Examinations, the Advanced Placement examinations administered by the College Board, the College-Level Examination Program, Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support examinations, and the American College Testing/Proficiency Examination program.

You can earn as many as 15 credits by applying classroom theory to real-world professional projects and demonstrating your new skills on the job while you are studying at UMUC. To earn credit for Workplace Learning, you enter a learning agreement with your employer and a faculty mentor. You then submit academic assignments about your Workplace Learning experience to earn as many as 6 credits each semester.

"It was perfect. All of my classes transferred over, so I didn't have to take [general education requirements]; basically, I could just jump right into my major."

Monica Graves

U.S. Army Veteran
Legal Secretary, National Labor Relations Board
Bachelor of Science in Psychology

"I transferred 15 credits to UMUC based on my experience and training in the Army. It was a fairly easy process. My UMUC advisor showed the paperwork I needed to do. I turned it in, and the next day my transferred credits showed up online."

Jerina Leach

Automated Logistics Specialist,
U.S. Army Reserve
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice

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